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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from A Book of Remarkable Criminals by H. B. Irving: day, the 29th, Geyer found that Mr. A. E. Cook and three children
had registered at the Bristol Hotel, where they had stayed until
Sunday the 30th.
Knowing Holmes' habit of renting houses, Geyer did not confine
his enquiries to the hotels. He visited a number of estate
agents and learnt that a man and a boy, identified as Holmes and
Howard Pitezel, had occupied a house No. 305 Poplar Street. The
man had given the name of A. C. Hayes. He had taken the house on
Friday the 28th, and on the 29th had driven up to it with the boy
in a furniture wagon. A curious neighbour, interested in the
advent of a newcomer, saw the wagon arrive, and was somewhat
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